<p>The body that is… You have to take care of the body is an ethnological study of how children look at body and health from their own perspective. During five weeks I did a field work in a school in Uppsala, Sweden. Ten fifth grade students and two teachers were interviewed. They were also participants in observations and did paintings. The theories used in this essay are a mix of phenomenology and feminist theories of western culture and the body. This study focuses on four different areas in which the body is important: Looks (clothes and make up), Food (what you eat, when, and why), Exercise (what you exercise, when, and why, and other leisure activity) and finally the Body and Health. Children are a part of society and the purpose of this essay is to see how they think and discuss around this questions. The children look at their own bodies with different eyes than they see others. The looks were important for some of these children; their clothes, their make up and their hair were important parts of how they wanted to be understood. The bodies of other people on, particular if they were related or friends in the closest surrounding, were not a problem but bodies of celebrities or people on tele-vision and magazines could be to fat, to thin, ugly or beautiful. People they knew personally could look how they wanted but the other ones could be valuated. They made a difference between female and male bodies when it came to clothes and make up. The children was aware of the connection between exercise and good health and many of them was part of physical activity on their leisure time, as well as they spent many hours with the com-puter at home, playing games or chatting on the Internet. They were well aware of what kind of food that is considered healthy and good, and what kind of food that makes you fat. Finally, they were well educated in the body ideals of today, and their reflections of the body were that a thin body is healthy and a fat one is unhealthy. They also considered it your task to take care of the body yourself even if many of the children said that how you look is nothing you could do something about.</p>

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Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka de val, inslag och strategier som präglar nyanlända flyktingars vardag. För att kunna uppfylla syftet har fyra flyktingar intervjuats och uppsatsens disposition har strukturerats efter det som de upplevt som relevanta inslag i vardagen. Uppsatsens teoretiska ram är fenomenologisk, där fokus läggs på studiet av individers dagliga liv och den kunskap som styr utformningen av det. Materialet visar att informanterna trots skilda personligheter, olika förflutet och skild etnisk bakgrund skildrar vardagen på liknande sätt. De likartade upplevelserna visar på att tillvaron till stor del ordnas utifrån de valmöjligheter som samhället erbjuder och att utformandet av den personliga livsplanen struktureras efter dessa.

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The body that is… You have to take care of the body is an ethnological study of how children look at body and health from their own perspective. During five weeks I did a field work in a school in Uppsala, Sweden. Ten fifth grade students and two teachers were interviewed. They were also participants in observations and did paintings. The theories used in this essay are a mix of phenomenology and feminist theories of western culture and the body. This study focuses on four different areas in which the body is important: Looks (clothes and make up), Food (what you eat, when, and why), Exercise (what you exercise, when, and why, and other leisure activity) and finally the Body and Health. Children are a part of society and the purpose of this essay is to see how they think and discuss around this questions. The children look at their own bodies with different eyes than they see others. The looks were important for some of these children; their clothes, their make up and their hair were important parts of how they wanted to be understood. The bodies of other people on, particular if they were related or friends in the closest surrounding, were not a problem but bodies of celebrities or people on tele-vision and magazines could be to fat, to thin, ugly or beautiful. People they knew personally could look how they wanted but the other ones could be valuated. They made a difference between female and male bodies when it came to clothes and make up. The children was aware of the connection between exercise and good health and many of them was part of physical activity on their leisure time, as well as they spent many hours with the com-puter at home, playing games or chatting on the Internet. They were well aware of what kind of food that is considered healthy and good, and what kind of food that makes you fat. Finally, they were well educated in the body ideals of today, and their reflections of the body were that a thin body is healthy and a fat one is unhealthy. They also considered it your task to take care of the body yourself even if many of the children said that how you look is nothing you could do something about.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att göra en diskursanalys av barnfetma och överviktiga barn i medieframställningar. Jag vill undersöka bland annat huruvida överviktiga barn framställs som en kategori vilken underordnas en grupp av barn som anses normalviktiga, på vilket sätt frågor om moral kopplas till debatten om barnfetma, vilka som driver den överordnade diskursen samt vad, vem eller vilka som anses orsaka barnfetman. Jag bygger min undersökning på en analys av 80 stycken artiklar, publicerade i tidningarna Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet och Expressen under år 2006. Genom min analys finner jag att överviktiga barn underordnas de barn som räknas som normalviktiga, bland annat just på grund av att övervikt definieras som onormalt och därmed som icke önskvärt. Vidare ser jag att övervikt och omoral på flera sätt kopplas samman, till exempel genom att övervikt ses som ett tecken på bristande kontroll. Debatten kring barnfetma kan också sägas följa ett recept för moralisk panik. Experter driver, med den medicinska diskursens särskilda status i ryggen, den överordnade diskursen i materialet. De både definierar problemet och pekar ut dess källor. Som orsaker till den ökande barnfetman framhävs bland annat negativa influenser från USA, föräldrars bristande kompetens samt att vi lever i en ny tillvaro med nya levnadsvillkor.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att med hjälp av diskursanalys granska hur makt, motstånd och identiteter skildras i de seriösa serieböckerna Persepolis av Marjane Satrapi, An Arab in America av Toufic El Rassi samt Maus av Art Spiegelman, som alla på ett eller annat sätt handlar om migration. Jag använder teorier som Michel Foucault och Chandra Talpade Mohanty har lagt fram och också litteratur om diskursanalys. Syftet är även att studera synen på serier som berättandeform. Jag diskuterar målgrupper för serieberättelser och huruvida serier håller på att ta sig in i "finkulturen". Där använder jag bland annat Ernesto Laclau och Chantal Mouffes teorier om diskursers kamp med varandra om makt och hegemoni. Med deras begrepp kan serier sägas befinna sig i ett "diskursivt fält" i förhållande till andra mer hegemoniska diskurser. Min slutsats är att seriösa serier håller på att bli en mer etablerad genre med egna uttrycksmedel men samtidigt fungerar som en form av motstånd mot finkulturen och mot hur och vem som tillåts berätta.